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How to Reel in Web Site Visitors by Building Your Own
Blog

I know, I know, blog this...blog that. Seems like everyone is
on the blogging bandwagon these days! I admit that I'm not quite
there yet, but I'll be joining the blogging club soon.

Why does blogging work to reel in web site visitors? Read
on...

1. Search engines LOVE blogs. Blogs are usually focused on a
particular niche, so they have lots of subject-specific content
that's well-organized. This makes it easy for the spiders to read
the content because there's usually less graphics, scripts,
flash, etc.

2. Content tends to be updated more frequently than web sites,
which the search engines love. If content doesn't change very
often, they tend to visit less often. Search engines also like
that there are lots of links because they index sites by
following the links.

3. There's no special programming or HTML skills needed so if
you love to write and are an expert in your field, you can be up
and running in no time. Before you know it, you'll have lots of
web site visitors reading your articles with anticipation.

4. Subject-specific articles generate tons of traffic! Let's
face it. Many of us publish Ezines in order to get people to
visit our web sites, and if we publish the articles on our
website, we gain an even better chance of people finding us.

5. Blogs accomplish the same thing, only it's much easier to
write your article and publish it immediately than it is to write
content for an Ezine, format it, test it, and then publish it,
only to find out that half of the emails were blocked by spam
filters!

6. Increase your subscriber list. You can subscribe to blogs
in the same way you subscribe to Ezines. Simply sign up and
you'll receive notices when the content has been updated. Plus,
the notices don't contain HTML, which means that the notification
will be more likely to get past the spam filters.

7. It's cheap! Many services like Blogger offer it for free.
Why spend tons of money creating the perfect web site that needs
lots of search engine optimization when you can be up and running
with your own blog for free, or at a very small monthly charge?
What an inexpensive way of generating traffic!

There you have it. Six good reasons to build your own blog.
Now what are you waiting for?

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